josh shroyer had to crawl out of his driver's side window to escape. >> didn't have time to think. i just held on for dear life practically. the water hit. my car just started floating and i was desperately trying to steer. >> reporter: from the north to the south the story is flooding. pittsburgh is recovering from a flash flood that has left the entire city water-logged. >> going through the jungle. >> reporter: while residents near myrtle beach adjust to their new normal, boating nearly a mile to get to their homes floating above nearly 13 feet of floodwaters. >> it came up so fast i didn't have time to do anything. one day i had land around the house and the next day i was just in the water. >> reporter: and while the east is soaking, the west hoping for rain as wildfires rage, the carpenter one fire singeing nearly 30,000 acres after lightning ignited the games that brightened of the sky ominously close to the famed las vegas